Williams College

Williams Academy is a clandestine academy that was founded in 1793. It has a absolute undergraduate acceptance of 2,077, its ambience is rural, and the campus admeasurement is 450 acres. It utilizes a 4-1-4-based bookish calendar. Williams College's baronial in the 2015 copy of Best Colleges is National Liberal Arts Colleges, 1. Its charge and fees are $48,310 (2014-15).
Williams Academy - amid in Williamstown, Mass., at the acropolis of Mount Greylock in the Berkshire Mountains - is one of the oldest colleges in the country. The academy was originally a men’s academy until 1970, if women were aboriginal admitted.

The college’s fraternities were abolished in 1962. The academy has abounding altered apprentice activities, including the semi-annual, school-wide trivia challenge and the anniversary Mountain Day in October if acceptance backpack Mount Greylock. The Williams Ephs (named afterwards the school’s architect Ephraim Williams) participate in NCAA Division III varsity sports in the New England Baby Academy Able-bodied Conference. Williams is aswell allotment of the actionable Little Three able-bodied appointment with Amherst and Wesleyan. The academy requires freshmen to reside on campus in any of six altered abode halls.


Williams Academy has three bookish branches-languages and the arts, amusing sciences, and science and mathematics - and alum programs in history of art and economics. Williams has baby chic sizes, with a apprentice to abecedary arrangement of 7:1. The academy aswell has Oxford-style tutorials, which await heavily on apprentice participation. The academy is home to abounding firsts, including the world’s aboriginal association of alumni, the aboriginal to abrasion caps and gowns at graduation and the aboriginal to host an intercollegiate baseball game. The academy has a attitude at anniversary graduation to bead a watch from the top of the academy chapel. If the watch breaks, attitude holds that the chic will be lucky. Notable alumni cover Elia Kazan, administrator of "On the Waterfront" and "A Streetcar Called Desire"; John Frankenheimer, administrator of "The Manchurian Candidate"; and Prince Hussain Aga Khan of Shia Muslim Royalty.

Talented, awful motivated acceptance and adroitness from beyond the country and away accumulate in the accustomed adorableness of Williamstown to actualize a association of acquirements that is both claimed and powerful. Claimed are the bonds that abound a part of adroitness and acceptance - in the classroom, lab, theater, and flat and through an amaranthine arrangement of extracurricular activities. Able are the acquirements that results, the appulse Williams acceptance go on to accept on the world, and the backbone of their constant adapter to anniversary added and to the place.

Amherst College

Amherst Academy is a clandestine academy that was founded in 1821. It has a absolute undergraduate acceptance of 1,785, its ambience is rural, and the campus admeasurement is 1,000 acres. It utilizes a semester-based bookish calendar. Amherst College's baronial in the 2015 copy of Best Colleges is National Advanced Arts Colleges, 2. Its charge and fees are $48,526 (2014-15).
Amherst College, amid in Amherst, Mass., is accepted for its accurate bookish climate. Amherst is a affiliate of the Five Colleges consortium, which aswell includes Smith, Mount Holyoke, Hampshire and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Acceptance may yield courses at any of these colleges.

 Amherst offers added than 100 apprentice organizations; the academy banned fraternities in 1984. Amherst claims to accept the oldest contest affairs in the nation, forth with the third oldest football field. The Amherst Lord Jeffs participate in NCAA Division III sports in the New England Small Academy Able-bodied Conference. The academy is aswell allotment of the actionable Little Three able-bodied appointment with Williams and Wesleyan, which has lasted added than 100 years. Freshmen are appropriate to reside on campus in one of seven abode halls.

Amherst is an undergraduate academy that offers degrees in added than 35 altered majors. Amherst, accepted as "the singing college," has abounding a cappella groups, including the Zumbyes, the Bluestockings and Route 9, to name a few. Amherst is aswell demography abundant strides to become added sustainable, and it protects 500 acreage of accessible acreage and baptize in its wildlife sanctuary. Notable alumni cover above U.S. President Calvin Coolidge, Prince Albert II of Monaco and above Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court Harlan Fiske Stone.

Amherst Academy is broadly admired as one of the nation's actual best advanced arts colleges. Enrolling 1,800 acceptance from about every accompaniment and added than 55 countries, Amherst appearance an accessible class and offers the BA in 38 fields of study. Amherst is allotment of the Five Academy Bunch with Smith College, Hampshire College, Mount Holyoke Academy and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst

Swarthmore College

Swarthmore Academy is a clandestine academy that was founded in 1864. It has a absolute undergraduate acceptance of 1,534, its ambience is suburban, and the campus admeasurement is 426 acres. It utilizes a semester-based bookish calendar. Swarthmore College's baronial in the 2015 copy of Best Colleges is National Advanced Arts Colleges, 3. Its charge and fees are $46,060 (2014-15).
Swarthmore Academy is amid just 11 afar southwest of Philadelphia-far abundant away to accept a 425-acre campus that is appointed as an arboretum. The academy was founded by the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), but has no religious amalgamation today. Almost bisected of acceptance abstraction abroad, and Swarthmore offers programs in added than 100 locations. The academy aswell has added than 100 organizations acceptance can get complex in on campus.

Swarthmore has 22 NCAA Division III varsity sports teams animated on by amulet Phineas the Phoenix. The academy alone has two fraternities and no sororities, as they were abolished in the 1930s. Although alone freshmen are appropriate to reside on campus, about 95 percent of acceptance abide to reside on campus.


Swarthmore Academy is allotment of the Tri-College Consortium with Bryn Mawr and Haverford. Acceptance can yield courses from these colleges. Unlike added advanced arts colleges, Swarthmore aswell offers a B.S. in engineering. Swarthmore has abounding different traditions, including the Crum Regatta, area acceptance chase bootleg boats down Crum Creek; and Worthstock, the school’s yield on Woodstock, featuring alfresco reside music, dancing and food. Notable alumni cover Nancy Roman, NASA’s aboriginal Chief of Astronomy in the Office of Space Science and "mother of the Hubble telescope;" above Massachusetts Governor and presidential applicant Michael Dukakis; and Robert Zoellick, above admiral of the Apple Bank.

Swarthmore College, a awful careful academy of advanced arts and engineering, celebrates the activity of the mind. Since 1864, it has aerial acceptance to their abounding bookish and claimed potential. Swarthmore is clandestine yet accessible to all, behindhand of banking need. With a all-around angle and 8:1 student/faculty ratio, Swarthmore gives acceptance the knowledge, insight, skills, and acquaintance to become leaders of industries and agents of change. Professors at Swarthmore will greatly change your angle with a question, or biking with you to appraise ecology damage, or advice you ascertain a abandoned language.

The collaborative Honors affairs crackles with bookish exploration, and the avant-garde externship affairs matches acceptance with alums from Capitol Hill to Silicon Valley. When you become a Swarthmore student, you coin access with alumni about the apple - cutting-edge professionals as invested in the success of their alma academy and its graduates as they are in authoritative a difference. When you footfall assimilate the Swarthmore campus, you appoint the world. A apple of ability and action, accord and connection. One area abundant area and dupe mark your adventure to a chic on robotics or all-embracing cinema. Think bookish analysis with no limits, whether it's administration perspectives with a acquaintance from addition abstemious or alert to a Rhodes Scholar. 

Wellesley College

Wellesley Academy is a clandestine academy that was founded in 1870. It has a absolute undergraduate acceptance of 2,474, its ambience is suburban, and the campus admeasurement is 500 acres. It utilizes a semester-based bookish calendar. Wellesley College's baronial in the 2015 copy of Best Colleges is National Advanced Arts Colleges, 4. Its charge and fees are $45,078 (2014-15).
Wellesley College, amid 12 west afar alfresco of Boston in Wellesley, Mass., has a breathtaking campus encompassing a lake, woodlands, an acreage and accessible meadows. It is a advanced arts academy for women and is one of the aboriginal Seven Sisters Colleges, which includes Mount Holyoke, Vassar, Smith, Radcliffe (now allotment of Harvard), Bryn Mawr and Barnard. Acceptance can accept from added than 150 apprentice organizations on campus. The academy has 14 varsity able-bodied teams that are allotment of NCAA Division III East Academy Able-bodied Conference. Instead of sororities, Wellesley has societies that serve as amusing and bookish clubs. Housing is affirmed for admission freshmen, and the majority of acceptance reside in Wellesley’s 21 abode halls throughout their four years.


Wellesley has a cross-registration affairs with MIT, alms acceptance a greater ambit of courses. Also, acceptance can absorb a division in addition academy in the Northeast as allotment of the Twelve Academy Barter Program. The academy has a able science program, including the nation’s additional oldest physics lab. Wellesley has a affairs alleged the Davis Degree Program, which allows women earlier than 24 to appear college. The academy aswell has abounding traditions, including an anniversary hoop-rolling chase amid the seniors, and stepsinging, if the bookish classes try to out-sing anniversary other. Notable alumni cover above Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; above Secretary of State Madeleine Albright; and ABC account ballast Diane Sawyer.

Wellesley College, one of the a lot of academically arduous institutions of academy apprenticeship in the country and broadly accustomed as the nation's top women's college, provides its acceptance with an arrangement of opportunities that actualize the richest accessible educational environment. Wellesley prepares women to apprehend their own accomplished ambitions and attempt in any setting. Alms added than 1,000 courses in 54 accustomed majors, the Academy aswell supports added than 100 apprentice clubs and organizations (as able-bodied as 14 varsity teams) that serve a advanced ambit of interests. It is this broad-based educational and empiric excellence, forth with its committed faculty, baby chic admeasurement (averaging 17-20, with a student/faculty arrangement of 7:1), and able faculty of community--that distinguishes Wellesley. As an academy that focuses alone on the ethics of a advanced arts apprenticeship (and does not action alum programs), Wellesley is able to address all of its bookish resources--faculty, facilities, and analysis abutment to its undergraduate students. Admission action is "need-blind" for U.S. citizens and abiding residents, acceptance applicants after attention to their adeptness to pay, and authoritative Wellesley one of the few colleges to accommodated 100 percent of approved banking need; additionally, its acceptable behavior annihilate loans for acceptance with the greatest need, creating one of the a lot of socioeconomically assorted colleges in the country. In fact, Wellesley awards banking aid over 50 percent of its students. Anniversary year several hundred women absorb a division (or year) belief abroad, area their banking aid applies; cross-registration is accessible with MIT, Olin Academy of Engineering, Babson, and Brandeis; and alive barter programs are offered through--among others--the Twelve Academy Barter Affairs and Spelman College. Through its Center for Work and Service, Wellesley offers outstanding career advice and internship programs with about three-quarters of acceptance agreeable in at atomic one internship. The Center awards stipends of $3,000 anniversary to 300 acceptance a year, authoritative it accessible for them to actualize their own different internships or yield advantage of an contrarily contributed opportunity. Twenty-one abode halls abode acceptance from all four classes and from 63 countries and 48 states, authoritative Wellesley one of the a lot of assorted colleges in the nation. Celebrated for the abounding amazing accessories on its admirable 500-acre campus, Wellesley is home to the Lulu Chow Wang Campus Center; the Science Center; the Knapp Media & Technology Center; the Margaret Clapp Library; the Davis Museum & Collins Cinema; the Keohane Sports Center; the Hunnewell Acreage & Alexandra Botanic Garden and Ferguson Greenhouses; the Jewett Arts Center; the Nehoiden Golf Course; the Newhouse Center for the Humanities; the Pforzheimer Learning and Teaching Center; the Slater International Center; the Wellesley Centers for Women; the Whitin Observatory; the Wellesley Academy Theatre; and the Albright Institute for Global Affairs, which educates women for administration in the world. Alumnae charge to the Academy and its mission is acclaim , and the access a part of the 32,000 alive alums--including above U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton '69 and above U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright '59, ABC Account ballast Diane Sawyer '67, and above Space Shuttle Commander Pamela Melroy '83--are strong. Wellesley is just alfresco of Boston, a city-limits affluent in theatre, art, sports, and entertainment, and busy with tens of bags of academy students.

Bowdoin College

Bowdoin Academy is a clandestine academy that was founded in 1794. It has a absolute undergraduate acceptance of 1,795, its ambience is suburban, and the campus admeasurement is 205 acres. It utilizes a semester-based bookish calendar. Bowdoin College's baronial in the 2015 copy of Best Colleges is National Advanced Arts Colleges, 5. Its charge and fees are $46,808 (2014-15).
Bowdoin Academy is amid in the littoral New England boondocks of Brunswick, Maine. The Bowdoin Polar Bears attempt in 31 varsity sports in the NCAA Division III New England Baby Academy Athletic Conference. Bowdoin has about 100 apprentice organizations.

 One of the better and a lot of alive groups is the Outing Club, which offers 100 excursions anniversary year. Peucinian Society, founded in 1805, is one of the oldest arcane and bookish societies in the country, with alumni including artist Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Bowdoin abolished fraternities in 1997 and replaced them with a arrangement of college-owned amusing houses. Freshmen are appropriate to reside on campus and are assigned to a academy abode that provides residential amusing activities.


Bowdoin was a men’s academy until 1971, if the academy accepted its aboriginal changeable students. It was aswell one of the aboriginal careful schools to accomplish the SAT and ACT alternative on its appliance in 1969. Added than bisected of Bowdoin acceptance abstraction away for a division through added than 100 affiliated bookish programs. Notable alumni cover above Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Melville Weston Fuller, columnist Nathaniel Hawthorne, above U.S. President Franklin Pierce, and animal female and gender researcher Alfred Kinsey—subject of the 2004 biographical blur abode his surname.

A advanced arts apprenticeship at Bowdoin is not about getting baby and safe; it is about accepting the abutment to yield hasty risks. That agency caring added about the questions than giving the appropriate answers, advertent you are acceptable at something you did not anticipate was your backbone and authoritative access area none arise to exist. Bowdoin's class offers a adventurous adapt for advanced apprenticeship advised to affect acceptance to become apple citizens with astute acuteness to the amusing and accustomed world. Its interdisciplinary focus encourages acceptance to accomplish access a part of subjects, ascertain disciplines that accelerate their imaginations and advance agog abilities for acclamation the challenges of a alteration world.

Bowdoin acceptance accomplish at the accomplished levels but aswell advance counterbalanced lives. Campus visitors frequently animadversion on how affable anybody at Bowdoin is to visitors and how blessed anybody seems at Bowdoin. This consequence is accurate by top retention, graduation and alumni giving rates. The affiliation to abode is awfully important to the educational, social, account and recreational opportunities at Bowdoin. Maine is abundant added than the

College's address. A Bowdoin apprenticeship is best summed up by "The Action of the College": To be at home in all acreage and all ages; To calculation Nature a accustomed acquaintance, And Art an affectionate friend; To accretion a accepted for the acknowledgment of others' work, And the criticism of your own; To backpack the keys of the world's library in your pocket, And feel its assets abaft you in whatever assignment you undertake; To accomplish hosts of accompany ... Who are to be leaders in all walks of life; To lose yourself in acceptable enthusiasms, And abet with others for accepted ends. This is the action of the academy for the best four years of your life. --Adapted from the aboriginal "Offer of the College" by William DeWitt Hyde, President of Bowdoin College, 1885-1917.

Pomona College

Pomona Academy is a clandestine academy that was founded in 1887. It has a absolute undergraduate acceptance of 1,612, its ambience is suburban, and the campus admeasurement is 140 acres. It utilizes a semester-based bookish calendar. Pomona College's baronial in the 2015 copy of Best Colleges is National Advanced Arts Colleges, 5. Its charge and fees are $45,832 (2014-15).
Pomona Academy is amid in Claremont, Calif., 35 afar east of city-limits Los Angeles abreast the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains.

 Pomona’s founders envisioned "a academy of the New England type" if they created this academy with baby classes and able student-faculty relationships. Pomona is a affiliate of the NCAA Division III Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference. On-campus apartment is affirmed if requested, and added than 97 percent of acceptance reside in the 14 abode halls, two-thirds of which accommodate individual rooms. Pomona offers added than 200 apprentice organizations.

A acclaimed abstruse club alleged "Mulfi" has larboard cryptic addendum with amusing annotation about campus back the 1940s. Acceptance can aswell get complex with the three campus fraternities.

Pomona Academy has about 45 majors and offers a 8:1 student-faculty ratio. Pomona acceptance can aswell yield classes at the added six colleges in the Claremont Colleges consortium: Scripps College, Claremont McKenna College, Harvey Mudd College, Pitzer College, Claremont Graduate University and Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Activity Sciences. Added than bisected of Pomona acceptance abstraction away through the about 50 programs Pomona offers in about 30 countries. "Ski-Beach Day" takes advantage of Pomona’s different location: Acceptance ski at a bounded resort in the morning, and absorb the afternoon at a bank in Orange County. Notable alumni cover above New York Times controlling editor Bill Keller and acclaimed choral aqueduct Robert Shaw.

Pomona offers its about 1,600 students-evenly disconnected amid men and women-a absolute chic in the arts, humanities, amusing sciences and accustomed sciences. With a student-faculty arrangement of eight to one, acceptance accept the befalling to plan carefully and collaboratively with advisers who are aswell top advisers in their fields. Acceptance and adroitness claiming anniversary added in laboratories, classrooms, and co-curricular activities, and anybody allowances from the activity generated by such an aggregation of aciculate and acquisitive minds. Friendships artificial a part of Pomona adroitness and acceptance frequently abide far above the four years of college.

Few institutions action Pomona's adeptness to amalgamate affectionate qualities as an boilerplate chic admeasurement of 15 with such all-embracing assets as a two-million-volume library. Fewer accept enrolled as accomplished and top accomplishing a apprentice physique which is as blessed with their ambiance and choice. As the founding affiliate of The Claremont Colleges, a different bunch of seven absolute institutions on abutting campuses, Pomona offers its acceptance the acquaintance of a small, academically superb advanced arts academy and the across of bookish and amusing assets commonly associated with above universities.

Students claiming and apprentice from one addition not alone in the classroom but aswell in circadian life. On-campus apartment is guaranteed, and few acceptance accept to reside anywhere else. The amazing indigenous and amusing assortment of its apprentice physique gives Pomona a broader mix of backgrounds than just about any commensurable educational institution.


Our location-within an hour of the Pacific Ocean, the Mojave Desert, the San Gabriel Mountains and the city-limits of Los Angeles-informs and shapes circadian activity at the College. There aren't abounding places in the apple area you can ski in the morning, play on the bank in the afternoon, and yield in a above alliance baseball bold or an opera at night. Above the recreational and cultural possibilities, our area offers incomparable opportunities for acreage study, association captivation and internships.

Pomona acceptance are so assorted that they abide simple categorization. They embrace new ideas, yield initiative, ask questions and claiming the cachet quo. They are as academically able a accumulation as any academy or university can claim, and they are absorbed in accomplishing something important with their talents.
Our acceptance allotment a spirit of artlessness and collaboration. Our acceptance are aggressive but not bloodthirsty - a actual important distinction. They plan hard, but don't analyze brand point averages to peers. Maybe it's the acclimate or the approach copse but, we tend to anticipate it's something more: a cooperation fostered by adroitness in the lab and classroom. Advisers animate collaboration, and abounding acceptance abide alive calm afterwards class, basic abstraction groups that accommodated in the abode halls, in lounges and computer labs and over laptops and all-overs at the Coop Fountain.

Students arise to Pomona from every accompaniment in the nation and from abounding added countries, from clandestine and accessible schools, from ample cities, suburbs and towns so baby they don't arise on a lot of maps. Added than one-third are acceptance of color, and a abundant allocation are in the aboriginal bearing of their families to appear a four-year academy or university.
To advance the arresting backbone and array of Pomona's apprentice body, the College's banking assets are critical. For U.S. citizens and abiding residents, acceptance decisions are fabricated after application of a student's banking circumstances. Over bisected of Pomona's acceptance accept banking aid from the Academy to abutment their study, and the Academy meets 100 percent of the approved banking charge of every enrolled student. This convenance ensures that the a lot of able acceptance will consistently be able to accept at Pomona behindhand of their banking circumstances.

Middlebury College

Middlebury Academy is a clandestine academy that was founded in 1800. It has a absolute undergraduate acceptance of 2,495, its ambience is rural, and the campus admeasurement is 350 acres. It utilizes a 4-1-4-based bookish calendar. Middlebury College's baronial in the 2015 copy of Best Colleges is National Advanced Arts Colleges, 7. Its charge and fees are $46,044 (2014-15).
Middlebury Academy is amid in the Champlain Valley amid the Green Mountains and the Adirondacks in the baby boondocks of Middlebury, Vt. The Middlebury Panthers accept 31 NCAA Division III varsity teams and are associates of the New England Baby Academy Athletic

Conference. Acceptance can accompany added than 150 organizations on campus. For skiers, Middlebury has 17 trails on the Middlebury Academy Snow Bowl ski area. The academy aswell competes in "Muggle Quidditch" and founded the All-embracing Quidditch Association based on the action from the "Harry Potter" novels. Middlebury aswell hosts the country’s oldest Winter Carnival, featuring a ski antagonism and music. All freshmen are appropriate to reside on campus and are assigned to one of 5 Commons, which accommodate bookish and amusing activities.


Middlebury College’s alum programs action a Master of Arts amount and Doctor of Modern Languages. The Middlebury Language Schools yield abode in the summer and action apprenticeship in 10 languages. Middlebury is aswell the home to the Bread Loaf Academy of English, as able-bodied as the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, one of the oldest and a lot of celebrated writers’ conferences. C.V. Starr-Middlebury Schools Away has added than 40 schools in 16 countries for acceptance to abstraction abroad, and added than 50 percent of juniors abstraction abroad. Notable alumni cover above White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer; columnist Eve Ensler, columnist of "The Vagina Monologues"; the associates of the accepted bandage Dispatch; and biographer Jeff Lindsay, who wrote the books that accept become the base for the TV appearance "Dexter."

Located in the bizarre New England boondocks of Middlebury, Vermont, Middlebury Academy offers breathtaking abundance angle and a accurate advanced arts class that is decidedly able in ecology studies, all-embracing studies, sciences, languages and literature. A commons-based residential activity arrangement allows acceptance to accompany their interests in an affectionate atmosphere while accommodating absolutely in the activity of the beyond academy community. Success in NCAA Division III sports antagonism reflects a ability that embraces the accent of the scholar/athlete. The apprentice physique encompasses a ample arrangement of cultures, ethnicities, religions and bread-and-butter backgrounds, authoritative up a active association with abundant bookish perspectives.

Carleton College

Carleton Academy is a clandestine academy that was founded in 1866. It has a absolute undergraduate acceptance of 2,045, its ambience is rural, and the campus admeasurement is 955 acres. It utilizes a trimester-based bookish calendar. Carleton College's baronial in the 2015 copy of Best Colleges is National Advanced Arts Colleges, 8. Its charge and fees are $47,736 (2014-15).
Carleton Academy is amid in the celebrated river boondocks of Northfield, Minn. The Carleton Knights accept 19 varsity able-bodied teams aggressive in the NCAA Division III Minnesota Intercollegiate Able-bodied Conference.

 Carleton offers added than 170 apprentice organizations, abounding with artistic names, including the Carleton Juggling F.I.S.H., the One Knight Stands cabaret affiliation and the Knightingales a cappella group, to name a few. Civil sports like quidditch, broomball, dodgeball and beach volleyball are aswell accepted a part of students. All freshmen are appropriate to reside on campus, and about 90 percent of acceptance accept to abide on campus in one of the abode halls, aggregate absorption houses or campus townhouses.


Carleton Academy offers abutting to 40 undergraduate majors. The academy has abounding altered traditions, including burglary and periodically announcement a adhesive apprehension of the German artist Friedrich Schiller that dates aback to the 1950s. A newer attitude is the "Silent Ball Party" during abstraction canicule above-mentioned to finals if acceptance don headphones and ball calm in the library. The Goodsell Observatory on Carleton’s campus houses three celebrated telescopes as able-bodied as several avant-garde telescopes accessible for classes and accessible houses. Notable alumni cover Anthony Downs, columnist of "An Economic Theory of Democracy," and aloft Supreme Court Justice Pierce Butler.

Carleton Academy is a clandestine advanced arts academy amid in the celebrated river boondocks of Northfield, Minn., 40 afar south of Minneapolis/St. Paul. Best accepted for its bookish arete and affable campus community, Carleton offers 33 majors and 15 concentrations in the arts, humanities, accustomed sciences, and amusing sciences. Carleton's apprentice physique is awfully difficult to categorize, but one chat to call it adeptness be curious. "Carls" are an intellectually clamorous accumulation that access acquirements with enthusiasm, energy, and a abnormally Carleton cast of playfulness. Broad-ranging interests are common, and friendships assume to cantankerous all acceptable boundaries. As acceptance and alumni will acquaint you, there's just something altered about Carleton. Maybe it's the admeasurement (about 2,000 students). Or maybe it's the ceaseless adjacency of so abounding artistic minds (95 percent of acceptance reside on campus). Whatever the reason, Carleton is a abode area acceptance are likelier to abet than compete. The Academy supports added than 100 apprentice organizations, and appearance abundant a capella articulate groups, ball troupes, ball groups and ball groups. The Academy aswell sponsors 22 varsity sports, additional a all-inclusive club and civil sports arena with about 90 percent of the apprentice physique partaking at a advanced spectrum of adeptness levels.

 Carleton's adroitness associates are awful admired scholars, researchers, and practitioners in their fields. But, aloft all, their aboriginal antecedence is teaching. A student-faculty arrangement of 9 to 1 ensures that Carleton acceptance accept affluence of befalling for alternation with their professors. Carleton acceptance appear from 50 states and 42 added countries. Multicultural acceptance annual for 24 percent of Carleton's 2,000 students. Added than bisected of all acceptance accept need-based banking aid and about 80 percent authority jobs on campus. Carleton ranks third a part of all baccalaureate-level colleges in the amount of its acceptance awarded celebrated National Science Foundation Fellowships for alum study. The Academy has had 18 Rhodes Scholars, and 87 Fulbrights accept been awarded to acceptance and alumni back 2000. The Center for Association and Civic Assurance encourages acceptance to amalgamate acceptable advance account with bookish assurance in the community. Opportunities abound for internships, externships, summer analysis with faculty, and career analysis with alumni. Added than 70 percent of the apprentice citizenry participates in off-campus studies. Carleton brings nationally and internationally acclaimed guests to campus as visiting adroitness and for account convocations, which are chargeless and accessible to the public. Guests accept included announcer and presidential adviser David Gergen; co-founder of Politico and Carleton trustee John Harris; Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton; and aloft U.S. Ambassador to Iraq, Afghanistan, and the U.N.

 Zalmay Khalilzad. Carleton appearance the 880-acre Cowling Arboretum (known as "the Arb") that provides a arrangement of walking, running, and cross-country skiing trails adjoining to the Cannon River and east of the campus. The Arb was called a part of the top 10 places to run in the country by Runner's World magazine. The Academy aswell has one of the better undergraduate libraries in the United States, as able-bodied as a science circuitous that consists of a Center for Mathematics and Computing, and barrio for physics and psychology, biology, and allure and geology. Opened in 2011, the Weitz Center for Adroitness is a alive lab for adroitness area the arts bisect with all disciplines. An 80,000 square-foot Amusement Center opened in 2000, giving Carls a advanced contest and amusement facility. Carleton graduates can be begin in the beginning of about every able field, and aural ten years of graduating, over 80 percent of alumni go on to top alum and able schools beyond the country.

Claremont McKenna College

Claremont McKenna Academy is a clandestine academy that was founded in 1946. It has a absolute undergraduate acceptance of 1,316, its ambience is suburban, and the campus admeasurement is 69 acres. Claremont McKenna College's baronial in the 2015 copy of Best Colleges is National Liberal Arts Colleges, 8. Its charge and fees are $47,395 (2014-15).

Claremont McKenna Academy is amid in Claremont, Calif., at the bottom of the San Gabriel Mountains, 35 afar east of city Los Angeles. The academy is allotment of the seven-college bunch accepted as The Claremont Colleges, which includes Scripps College, Pomona, Harvey Mudd College, Pitzer College, Claremont Alum University and Keck Alum Institute of Applied Life Sciences. Acceptance can yield classes at any of the affiliate institutions as able-bodied as adore the amusing activities, contest and dining casework at the 5 undergraduate and two alum colleges. The Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Contest affairs combines student-athletes from Claremont McKenna, Harvey Mudd and Scripps to attempt in the NCAA Division III Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference. Acceptance can acquisition clubs that fit a advanced array of interests, from Without the Box ad-lib accumulation to Shades a cappella group, a part of abounding others. All freshmen are appropriate to reside on campus, and about 97 percent of acceptance abide in academy apartment for four years.

Although it is primarily an undergraduate college, Claremont McKenna offers a alum master’s affairs in accounts through the Robert Day Academy of Economics and Finance. Claremont McKenna was originally founded as Claremont Men’s Academy but became coeducational in 1976. While at Claremont McKenna, hardly over bisected of all acceptance abstraction away in locations all over the world. The academy is home to 10 acclaimed analysis institutes alms acceptance the adeptness to conduct graduate-level analysis with faculty. Notable alumni cover amateur and actor Robin Williams and Paul Brickman, who wrote and directed the 1983 blur "Risky Business."

Haverford College

Haverford Academy is a clandestine academy that was founded in 1833. It has a absolute undergraduate acceptance of 1,187, its ambience is suburban, and the campus admeasurement is 200 acres. It utilizes a semester-based bookish calendar. Haverford College's baronial in the 2015 copy of Best Colleges is National Advanced Arts Colleges, 8. Its charge and fees are $47,214 (2014-15).
Haverford Academy is amid 10 afar from Philadelphia in Haverford, Pa., on a campus that is classified as an arboretum, encompassing area and a ample pond. Although the academy was founded by a accumulation of Quakers from Philadelphia and New York, the academy does not accept a religious amalgamation today. Haverford has 21 NCAA Division III sports teams in the Centennial Conference, and the academy has the oldest academy soccer aggregation and alone varsity candid aggregation in the country. Haverford does not accept any fraternities or sororities, but it has added than 134 organizations that acceptance can get complex with on campus. Haverford is a residential college, and added than 98 percent of acceptance reside in one of the abode halls, campus apartments or houses.


Haverford Academy offers acceptance the befalling to yield classes at Bryn Mawr, Swarthmore and the University of Pennsylvania. Haverford has one of the a lot of all-encompassing collections of Quaker history in the world. Also, The C. Christopher Morris Candid Library and Accumulating is the better accumulating of candid memorabilia in the world. Haverford offers a amount of abstraction away programs through its International Bookish Programs office, including programs advised accurately for pre-med acceptance and science and algebraic majors. Notable alumni cover amateur Chevy Chase, announcer Juan Williams and columnist Frank Conroy.

Haverford Academy provides a advanced arts apprenticeship in the broadest sense, adopting an aberrant spirit of inquiry, debate, botheration solving, creativity, ingenuity, and adulation of learning. A adroitness of top principle, both academically and personally, is the watermark of a Haverford education. It is embodied in the account cipher and reflected in the lives of alumni. Haverford's acceptable accent on a affluent curriculum, on undergraduate captivation in adroitness analysis -- all acceptance are appropriate to complete a Senior Thesis -- and the abutting of academics to issues of amusing amends is continued by three interdisciplinary Centers: The Hurford Humanities Center; The Center for Peace and Global Citizenship and The Koshland Integrated Natural Science Center.